Year: 2011

By now, I am sure, you already heard about the flurry of improvements that swept the Azure Land. If you didn’t, please take a moment to go through Bob’s post here: socks will be blown, the Windows Azure team did an *amazing* job. If you explore the new developer center you’ll eventually land on…

We have a number of open positions for developers and testers in the identity team. We are building something pretty awesome, which of course I can’t (yet) talk about, but if you are a regular reader of this blog I can tell you this: you *will* want to be part of it You can take…

Weather is not that good this Sunday afternoon, and the wife warned me already yesterday that today she was going to catch up with the AI class; hence, I think I am going to break the blog-silence and spend some time describing BlobShare, a little jewel my DPE friends quietly released last week (and covered…

I am sure that many of you, amazed by the fantastic news about the Windows Developer Preview capabilities, wondered if it will be possible to take advantage of ACS even from Metro Style applications. The answer is “yes, absolutely”. We’ve been working with the appropriate Windows engineering team to make sure we connect to ACS…

For the series “things I was working on before moving from DPE to the product team”. Today Wade’s gang released an update to the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit containing a new lab, “Introduction to the Windows Azure Marketplace for Applications”. Here there’s a bit of brain dump (not too long, it’s already past…

As you know, ACS offers a simple-yet-powerful rule engine which you can use for processing incoming claims and keep out of your application a considerable chunk of logic: claims set normalization, occasional policy decision point, and so on. The primitive there is the claim mapping rule: if an incoming claim matches the premise of a…

Nossir, there is nothing wrong with my blog the screenshot above is indeed taken from a Mac desktop, and the one you see on the center is actually an instance of the iPhone emulator. What you should notice, however, is the list of Identity Providers it shows, so strangely similar to what we have shown…

Big news in ACSland today! There few new key features that – I am sure – many of you will welcome with a big smile. As usual, for the full scoop take a look at the announcement and the release notes; here I’ll just give you few highlights & customarily lighthearted commentary. The Portal Comes…